Remember when the debate over public places, flags, monuments, and the like was supposedly about Confederate generals? Then it morphed to anyone who ever owned slaves, which swiftly devolved to any statue of anyone who appeared to have been white and lived a long time ago. Now it’s…Elvis?
Elvis Presley was white, but otherwise he doesn’t fit the BLM riot target model very well. He didn’t fight in the Civil War, because he wasn’t around then. He didn’t fight in any war. He died in 1977, which may be ancient history to some but others of us were actually alive and remember him. He was a singer. The King of Rock ‘N Roll.
Elvis wasn’t particularly political, though he did meet Nixon once.
Nevertheless, his former home, Graceland, has not escaped the wrath of the vandals.
The wall outside @VisitGraceland in #Memphis where #Elvis fans write their names and tributes to The King was vandalized overnite. #BlackLivesMatter #DefundMPD #AbolishIce & #BreonnaTaylor were spray painted all over the wall.
📸: @BriseidaHolguin pic.twitter.com/xT9gcyQz82— Joyce Peterson (@MemphoNewsLady) September 1, 2020
Elvis Presley’s estate was vandalized with “Black Lives Matter” and “Defund the Police” graffiti overnight into Tuesday.
The protest slogans were found spray-painted in black and orange on the stone wall surrounding the King’s mansion, a signature Memphis landmark and major tourist draw, local newspaper The Commercial Appeal reported.
“Abolish ICE” and “F–k Trump” were also among the spray-painted phrases.
The graffiti covered up many of the hundreds of tributes to the music icon handwritten by fans on the wall over the years.
It all seems obligatory now. Spray-paint anarchy, hate, and obscenities onto anything that anyone values for any reason, to debase and devalue it and to offend as many as possible. This is not about winning hearts and minds and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s about license and intimidation. Stop us if you can.
They need to be stopped. Local leaders bear responsibility for public safety at the local level. They either must do their jobs or step aside.
Another Memphis landmark, historic concert venue The Levitt Shell, was defaced with similar graffiti, including “Eat the Rich” and “Defund MPD [Memphis Police Department].”
Why? Stop us if you can.
Cities with leaders who have decided to stop this have succeeded. I’ve brought up San Antonio, Texas, a few times during the now three months of rioting because leaders there made a decision early on to repel the insurrectionists. San Antonio hasn’t seen trouble since then. Democrats run that city. They just decided not to allow it to be destroyed. So it hasn’t been.
WTF ~ Just Dispical
Damaging Elvis’s home??? You’ve got to wonder who these idiots are! All these morons should read about Pol Pot in Cambodia where they wanted to wipe out all “western” influence. The Govt. killed MILLIONS for the smallest of offences. People were killed for having fillings in their teeth, claimed it wasn’t natural! Meanwhile the elite lived in western luxury! (Watch The Killing Fields)
The first thing they do is confiscate all the personal weapons, then abolish Free Speech! In Mozambique they told people they were checking registration of firearms so they told people t bring their guns to the Police Station and when they had finished they would be returned! The British were overseeing the operation so what cold go wrong?
The guns were never returned and the Portuguese citizens of Mozambique, most of who had been born in Africa were gives 72 hours to liquidate their property and leave the Country! To Go Where? Fortunately South Africa tok then in.
Me friend Neucha Gonzales watched as 3 families of Natives moved into their beautiful home and stated cooking over open fire’s in the ovens! Today you must bring your own Light Bulbs and Toilet Paper and food when visiting Mozambique, no ones visits!
It started with an “equality” movement, then registration and confiscation of personal firearms, then “redistribution of wealth”, then deportation of all ‘Non Indigenous” citizens.
Wake up people or we’re all through!
Chip Payne
Chip they are “moroffs” not “morons”. Moroff = have more off then on. Besides who said they could read. But when your heroes are despots you don’t need to read.
So what are we going to do? What are you going to do? Nothing. That’s what. A man was shot dead in Portland just because he supports Trump. But we will do nothing. They will burn our cities and destroy private businesses and we will do nothing. Because all we’ve ever done is post comments and talk and that’s all we are going to do…nothing. The authorities sit by and do nothing. The citizens sit by and do nothing. Nothing will be done unless we organize as they have. But we all know that we have no motivation so we will do nothing and therefore nothing will be done. Shameful.
Interesting take on his ancestry. He was not white. He was a mixture of Arab, Caucasian, and Black. I forget what they called his ancestry but it has a name. Others include Abraham Lincoln.
This is why gun and ammo sales to normal people is through the roof! Liberal hate guns, so this war will be over quick! Can you imagine a rioter with a lead pipe up against an AR-15?
stock up on guns and ammo, practice with them and, when the violence starts, DO NOT be afraid to take it to them. Do it at long range so they can’t ID you while they are running away. Long range equates to anything over 100yds
THE MORE TGEY DESTROY THE LESS THEIR LIVES MATTER
Black Criminal Lives Matter ! It is a sad in America when criminals are treated like victim-heros and police are treated like criminals! And who’s idea was it to make all of their baby mommas millionaires? I see a civil war coming!
The police across this country should release all the names and addresses of everyone that has been arrested for the riots. So we can go spray paint their house and destroy them. Like they did to Elvis’s house and others.
The sorry MF’s that did this should be tracked down and dealt with harshly. I think that if they want to make a statement, drop them off in the middle of Death Valley with a half canteen of water and told have fun. Those that survive, get to go to jail or be immediately deported, depending on their immigration status.